Improving Operational Responsiveness Using Open Geospatial Consortium Web-Enabled Nodes in a Space Environment

The Open GeoSpatial Consortium (OGC) is actively working on many specifications that are extremely relevant to this application. The OGC Webservices Testbed Phase-4(OWS-4) experiment which culminated in December 2006, demonstrated more than 40 organizations inter-operating using the OGC standards and tasking sensors including the NASA EO-1 satellite as part of a disaster relief scenario. The EO-1 GeoBliki, a Sensor Web Enabled Data node, was one of the first operational instantiations of a space node in advance of TASCAT-1.